GORDON Strachan's first taste of First Division football with the Sky Blues will be at unfashionable Stockport on August 11.

The new Nationwide League fixtures also see Kevin Keegan and Gianluca Vialli come face-to-face on the opening day of the season.

The former England boss, now with Manchester City, and Watford?s Italian idol meet up at Maine Road on August 11.

Coventry, meanwhile, face a Boxing Day trip to Grimsby and entertain Rotherham on New Year?s Day, while they have to wait until March and April to come up against West Brom and Birmingham on home soil before closing the season, which finishes early on April 21 due to the World Cup, at Burnley.